Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

Blurring synthesisers and disembodied vocals into cohesive, if disorientating, whole

(Software/Mexican Summer)

Oneohtrix Point Never, aka US composer Daniel Lopatin, became a torchbearer for the hypnagogic pop movement thanks to his audio-visual 80s synth reverie (particularly the ‘Nobody Here’ YouTube clip, which rewired Chris de Burgh’s ‘Lady in Red’ as an ode to existential vacuity).

It’s an album which furthers the artist’s knack for blurring synthesisers, disembodied vocals, cut-up samples from TV adverts, piano riffs and nostalgic found sounds into a cohesive, if disorientating, whole – as best evinced via the chopped-up hip-hop and MOR snatches of laser-ballad ‘Child Solider’.